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Computer Using Educators (CUE). This is a CLOSED community.

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Docs

Google Docs allows users to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and forms that are stored online and accessible from any computer. Google Docs can help you streamline and organize your tasks and responsibilities. By implementing Google Docs, you will see a direct increase in your productivity and a decrease in your stress level. All the Google tools are free and technophobe friendly.

Virtual Inbox - A form that collects the web address of students work and organizes it by school and grade.

Administrative Forms

Administrative Observation Walkthrough - This is an teacher observation form that the administrators can use. The iPod Touch provides an easy way for data entry, then they can complete the observation in the spreadsheet once complete.

Technology Survey - This is the survey we give to staff and students at the beginning of the school year.

Three Minute Administrative Walk-Through - This is an teacher observation form that the administrators use in my district. The iPod Touch provides an easy way for data entry, then they can complete the observation in the spreadsheet once complete.

Homework Check - This is a detailed form that teachers input student scores and the spreadsheet coordinates the results based on which assignments the teacher was using.

Discipline Form - This forms allow teacher entry of disciplinary actions. Note: We use avatar names when entering information.

Mock up something you might actually implement.
Send the "live form" link to colleagues so they can fill out your form.
Share the results with colleagues or publish them as a web page.
Optional: Create (and publish) charts of the results.

Add the lead learner (wendygorton@gmail.com) as a collaborator.
One member of each small group will present the form to the large group.

BONUS Demonstration: Using Google Docs and Forms on a Mobile Device

Accessing your Google Docs on a Mobile DeviceCompleting a Google Form on a Mobile Device

YouTube Video: Teachers and Principals Talk About Google Docs

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Teach Collaborative Revision with Google Docs

Revision is a critical piece of the writing process—and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader’s Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way.

Teach Collaborative Revision with Google Docs

Revision is a critical piece of the writing process—and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader’s Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way.

The sharing features of Google Docs enable you and your students to decide exactly who can access and edit documents. You’ll find that Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and that it helps to fulfill the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English, which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing.

On this page, you will find several reproducible PDF articles from Writing magazine filled with student-friendly tips and techniques for revision. You'll also find a teacher’s guide that provides you with ideas for how to use these materials with Google Docs to create innovative lesson plans about revision for your classroom.

After reviewing our activity ideas and Google Docs tutorials, you may develop your own lesson plans and ideas. We want to hear from you! We invite you to share your curriculum ideas with the Google Educators community through our Google for Educators Discussion Group.